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Intel Accelerating Virtualization Effort
1/20/2005 11:00:00 AM

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan 20, 2005 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Intel Corporation is accelerating its broad industry efforts to deliver enhanced virtualization capabilities -- codenamed VANDERPOOL -- for Intel(R)-based clients and servers. The company has released its preliminary VANDERPOOL Technology External Architecture Specifications (EAS) to facilitate industry design collaboration and advance the pace and breadth of advancements in virtualization.

Virtualization allows a platform to run multiple operating systems and applications in independent partitions or "containers." One physical compute system can function as multiple "virtual" systems. VANDERPOOL Technology can help improve future virtualization solutions.

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The VANDERPOOL Technology specifications, found at www.intel.com/technology/vt, provide technology overviews and guidance to software developers who are designing virtualization solutions for both IA-32 and Intel(R) Itanium(R)-based processor platforms.

While expected in Itanium-based platforms this year, Intel now also plans to offer VANDERPOOL Technology in future desktop processor and chipset products in 2005, a year earlier than previously planned.